How safe is your city? Put it to the bicycle test
source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20081008/tod-uk-bikes-cb1d00a.html
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Publicist Mariano Pasik has set out to monitor the level of crime in different neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires with hidden cameras and unchained bikes as bait. The idea is that the longer it takes for the bike to be stolen, the safer the area.
"It's not a statistic but in a way it shows that the places where the bicycle gets robbed really quickly perhaps the quality of life is poorer," he said.
Pasik has even posted speeded-up versions of his bike-theid vids,, set to music, no his site (http://www.lapruebadelabicicleta.com/), and hopes that others will also take part in his bicycle test across the world - planting bikes and camera, that is, not stealing bikes.
And he's come across some surprising findings so far, for instance, while a bike lasted an hour without being stolen in the unsavoury Constitution neighbourhood, on the upscale shopping street of Santa Fe, a bike lasted a few short minutes before it was stolen.
Though this us perhaps because theives are more likely to operate in areas where there is more wealth and more people, rather than trying their luck in already poor neighbourhoods.
Interestingly, so far in the Bicycle Test, no woman has stolen a bike.
A neighbourhood "passes" the bicycle test when an hour passes or when the filmer gets tired or runs out of batteries.
"It's not a statistic but in a way it shows that the places where the bicycle gets robbed really quickly perhaps the quality of life is poorer," he said.
Pasik has even posted speeded-up versions of his bike-theid vids,, set to music, no his site (http://www.lapruebadelabicicleta.com/), and hopes that others will also take part in his bicycle test across the world - planting bikes and camera, that is, not stealing bikes.
And he's come across some surprising findings so far, for instance, while a bike lasted an hour without being stolen in the unsavoury Constitution neighbourhood, on the upscale shopping street of Santa Fe, a bike lasted a few short minutes before it was stolen.
Though this us perhaps because theives are more likely to operate in areas where there is more wealth and more people, rather than trying their luck in already poor neighbourhoods.
Interestingly, so far in the Bicycle Test, no woman has stolen a bike.
A neighbourhood "passes" the bicycle test when an hour passes or when the filmer gets tired or runs out of batteries.
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